Mysterious serial killer Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, in London. Their murders are commonly referred to as the “double event.”
Stride, nicknamed “Long Liz,” was discovered around 1 a.m. on the ground in Whitechapel district.
About the same time, Eddowes had been released by police after she had been found drunk. Three witnesses last saw her alive talking with a man, presumably Jack the Ripper. Her mutilated body was found 10 minutes later.
Two weeks later, authorities received a parcel containing half a human kidney, probably Eddowes’, accompanied by a note that has become known as the letter “From Hell.”
Jack the Ripper’s identity has never been confirmed, and many authors and historians have proposed theories on who committed the gruesome murders.
